Bonsai of Thoughts: Six

 1. You all promised to come to the gathering, yet when I arrived, not a single soul was there. Have you made even the giving of one's word into a jest these days?
  
 2. - Poet, what does someone look like whose heart has just been broken? Can you tell me? I have never seen such a person. How does one live when the heart is shattered?
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 - Why do you smile, poet?
 - How could you possibly see? That face can only be glimpsed in my mirror!
  
 3. In life we want to gain this, we want to achieve that. Yet to remain alive, one must learn only to let go!
  
 4. I drink because I cannot bear your tears, and you weep because I drink.
 Tell me, will you stop first? Or shall I?
  
 5. You are wearing yourself out crafting jewels of gold, silver, and pure metal for me, yet I could never bring myself to say that apart from you, I never had any other ornament at all.
  
 6. My beloved used to threaten that she would leave me. One day I cast aside all fear, looked into her eyes and said, 'Go then!' Frightened by my gaze, she embraced me.
  
 7. So many words have accumulated like banknotes in my chest, yet I have not a single person with whom to break them into conversation!
  
 8. While I am writing, you are drinking tea. Oh dear, did you burn your lips?
 Yes, beloved, the pain of burning sears just like that!
  
 9. By giving me love again and again, you have made me so greedy that apart from love, I have no desire left for anything worldly.
  
 10. Show me your face just once!
 I haven't been able to write for so long!
  
 11. Moon intoxicated by sun, sun intoxicated by moon,
 You are drunk on me, but I am all impatience!
  
 12. One with such a voice and such radiance in the eyes,
 Keeps others in fear, shatters them with love's surprise!
  
 13. In the vast notebook of poems written about your hair's fragrance,
 'Remain forever on each eyelid of the poet's glance.'
  
 14. O lover, know this: when the beloved stops her sulking, nothing remains between you two.
  
 15. Hide me in your anklet's chime,
 Let me rest in the peaceful afternoon time.
  
 16. I weep at words of sorrow, I weep at words of joy,
 Don't you think it's time to declare me dead?
  
 17. Writing and writing, I learn to weep... am I not a poet then!?
 Loving and loving, I learn to lose, alas... am I not human then!?
  
 18. I cannot swim, yet I have floated on water,
 Breathed in water's scent, and paid the price thereafter.
  
 19. Ninety-nine people deceived you,
 And you alone could not see me! What use are such eyes then?
  
 20. Driven by neglect's lash, I have finally returned.
 Ah, if only you knew how deeply I had yearned!